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N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 User's Guide

Preface

The N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 User's Guide introduces you to the product and describes how to perform many tasks using the HTML user interface.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is for advanced system administrators who are performing the initial configuration of the N1 Service Provisioning System software and for system administrators who are responsible for maintaining the system.

This document is intended for experienced system administrators with extensive knowledge of SunTM software and hardware. Do not use this document as a planning or pre-sales guide. You should have already determined your system requirements and purchased the appropriate equipment and software before reading this document.

How This Book Is Organized

The N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 User's Guide provides an overview of the N1 Service Provisioning System software and provides task-based procedures for common tasks.

Chapter 1, An Overview of the N1 Service Provisioning System Software provides an introduction to the N1 Service Provisioning System software . The product architecture, object model, and interfaces are described.

Chapter 2, Assessing Your Application Environment prompts you with questions that will aid you in setting up the N1 Service Provisioning System software .

Chapter 3, Common Tasks in the HTML User Interface provides procedures to perform tasks in the N1 Service Provisioning System software 's HTML user interface.

Chapter 4, Hosts provides a description of how the provisioning software interacts with hosts. The chapter also contains procedures on managing hosts with the provisioning software.

Chapter 5, Components provides conceptual information about what components are, how they work, and which components are built-in. This chapter also provides procedures for basic component management tasks.

Chapter 6, Plans describes how to work with plans in the N1 Service Provisioning System software .

Chapter 7, Comparisons describes the types of comparisons that the provisioning software can run.

Chapter 8, Configuring Notifications provides information on how to set up the N1 Service Provisioning System software to notify you when an event occurs.

Appendix A, Special Names contains a list of names that are restricted to system use only.

Glossary provides a list of words and phrases found in this book and their definitions.

Related Books

The following books provide conceptual information or procedures to administer the N1 Service Provisioning System software . If you plan to use this documentation in a hardcopy format, ensure that you have the following books available for your reference.

Accessing Sun Documentation Online

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Ordering Sun Documentation

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Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol 

Meaning 

Example 

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output 

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% you have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output 

machine_name% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value 

To delete a file, type rm filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words, or terms, or words to be emphasized. 

Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide.

These are called class options.

You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P–2 Shell Prompts

Shell 

Prompt 

C shell prompt 

machine_name%

C shell superuser prompt 

machine_name#

Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt 

$

Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt 

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